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SyncTogether

Sync Address Book, iCal, Safari, and more between two or more Macs.

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overpriced for its target market, i.e. me

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Contributed by: matthew20 Tuesday, March 06 2007 @ 08:54 AM PST

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: 1-6 months

I think Mark/Space is making a mistake pricing this at $50. Let's face it, their target market segments are the following:

1. People who are too cheap to buy .Mac

That's it! And, as someone who includes himself proudly in this group, who's been balking at the cost of dotMac because all I really want to do is sync my laptop & desktop together, and who'd love a Simple, Cheap (tm) alternative that did just that -- I think I'm exactly who this program is for. And at $29 it would be a no-brainer.

But at $50 it's a brainer indeed. Seems like I might as well go all the way and buy the "full" dotMac (which can be found for around $75 online)... either that or continue to buy neither one, and wait for Mark/Space to drop the price.

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overpriced for its target market, i.e. me - rubyourface

True, the price might be too much for some users. But keep in mind that .Mac is a yearly subscription...this is an app with a one-time fee.

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Tuesday, March 06 2007 @ 11:48 AM PST

overpriced for its target market, i.e. me - faisal

There are other target markets: people unwilling to put their data on Apple's servers, people behind a relatively restrictive firewall, people unwilling to put up with .Mac sync's regular failure to actually work, etc.

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Tuesday, March 06 2007 @ 11:55 AM PST

overpriced for its target market, i.e. me - Strider72

Yes .mac is a subscription, but think about it... next year there will be a new OS X out, and you will probably need to pay for SyncTogether again as an upgrade.... When it's pay for an upgrade or stop using it, that's de facto subscription itself.

Then you have to figure the added hassle inherent in the assumption that this will inevitably not work as well as Apple's own software, (esp. reading the reviews).

Too rich for my blood. What a shame the original developer sold it -- he seemed eager to make things work well.

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Sunday, June 17 2007 @ 06:53 AM PDT